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Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 13:21:28 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jeff Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org>
Subject: Re: how does DJGPP check for LFN support?
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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-: 1 you need to use absolute disk read/write to write directly to disk

IMHO this doesn't become a bother until one tries to support a lot of
variations, e.g., FAT12/16/32 and DOS >= 3.0.  I would be delighted to
get something working for just FAT16 + DOS 5.0, so I can use CVS.

-: 2 you need to implement a intelligent file cache or the TSR will be really
-: slow and almost unusable

Do you believe this will be as critical if the driver is written in asm?